Union Strategies for the Representation of Platform Delivery Workers in Spain

IF 1.7 Q2 INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS & LABOR
Juan Arasanz Díaz, Pablo Sanz de Miguel
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Abstract

Food-delivery digital labour platforms started to operate in Spain in 2016. As in other national contexts, these platforms have misclassified workers as independent contractors rather than employees, shifting responsibilities and risks onto workers who have been forced to operate under marketized relationships lacking protection. This paper analyses trade unions practices and strategies targeted towards food-delivery platform workers (riders) in Spain. The findings are based on desk research and fieldwork consisting of semi-structured interviews with representatives from different trade unions and self-organized workers’ associations. The article shows how trade unions’ strategies resting on litigation and social dialogue ended up with the first legislation in Europe which introduced a rebuttable presumption of employment in the field of delivery platforms. At the same time, it shows the limitation of those strategies resting on institutional power resources due to the fragmentation of workers’ interests and the newly platforms’ strategies to circumvent labour law.
西班牙平台送货工人代表的工会策略
外卖数字劳动力平台于2016年开始在西班牙运营。与其他国家的情况一样,这些平台错误地将工人归类为独立承包商而不是雇员,将责任和风险转移到被迫在缺乏保护的市场化关系下运作的工人身上。本文分析了针对西班牙外卖平台工人(骑手)的工会实践和策略。调查结果基于案头研究和实地调查,包括与不同工会和自组织工人协会代表的半结构化访谈。本文展示了工会基于诉讼和社会对话的策略如何以欧洲第一个立法而告终,该立法在交付平台领域引入了可反驳的就业推定。同时,由于工人利益的碎片化和新平台规避劳动法的策略,这些基于制度权力资源的策略存在局限性。
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Journal of Labor and Society
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